ANP wants Afghan conflict resolved peacefully

CHARSADDA: Awami National Party (ANP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter president Aimal Wali Khan on Monday said that masses were now aware that who was supporting terrorism and who was standing up to terrorists.

“The nation cannot be deceived in the name of religion and the day is not far when all the terrorists would get eliminated,” he said while speaking at a party meeting at UC-4 here.Aimal Wali said that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman claimed at public meetings that his struggle was for the restoration of democracy but at the same time was boasting of ‘victories’ of Taliban in Afghanistan.

He said that Pakhtuns would never forget the double standards of so-called religious leaders.The ANP leader said that Pakistan should learn lessons from the past mistakes and abandon the war and violence policy.

He said that Pakhtuns were being pushed into darkness again by launching another war on our soil. “The Pakhtuns have been fighting an imposed war for five decades, but instead of learning from mistakes, the ruling elites are repeating the past mistakes,” Aimal Wali opined. He said that the world powers had created chaos on the Pakhtun lands for their interests.

Aimal Wali Khan said that ANP adhered to Bacha Khan’s philosophy of non-violence and had a clear stance on terrorism. “Our history has proved that we have never surrendered to terrorists and will never allow them on the Pakhtun soil,” the ANP leader reiterated.He called for a peaceful resolution of the Afghan conflict, saying that if effective measures were not taken, the war in Afghanistan would engulf the entire region.